Example sentences of "placed [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drains are usually secured by a suture , and a sterile safety pin may be placed through the drain to prevent it retreating into the wound . |
| 2 | A wooden rod was placed through the centre hole of a whorl or disc made of wood or stone . |
| 3 | The chairman , James Millar , said that while Invergordon could not be immune to the volume and margin pressures currently being experienced by the Scotch whisky industry , the group was well placed through the mix of its business to ride out the present difficulties . |
| 4 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 5 | All advertisements should be placed through the ARC Advertising /RADA public relations company : |
| 6 | In August 1989 Scottish police visited Malta to investigate the Talb connection , and in October investigators confirmed that they were examining the possibility that the bomb had been placed aboard an Air Malta flight before being transferred to Pan Am 's Frankfurt-London-New York flight PA 103 . |
| 7 | Northampton is perfectly placed as a touring centre with a wide range of accommodation to choose from , ranging from luxury fourstar to comfortable family-run hotels and guest houses . |
| 8 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 9 | He expended large sums in the construction of this city , and in the foundations he ordered several decapitated criminals to be placed as a sign of sacrifice . ’ |
| 10 | After removal of the supernatant , the pellet was dispersed into a slurry , drawn into a fine glass pipette and placed as a standing drop on the surface of a nucleopore filter in organ culture . |
| 11 | It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland . |
| 12 | It meant the horse that was placed between the shaf of a cart , as opposed to the trace-horse which pulled in front of the thiller . |
| 13 | A split infinitive occurs when a word ( usually an adverb ) is placed between the word ‘ to ’ and a following verb , as in ‘ to really understand . ’ |
| 14 | This is normally placed between the ceiling joists , but it is essential that the space under the water tank(s) is left uninsulated to allow heat to permeate through the ceiling , and that any water pipes and tanks in the roof space are themselves well insulated . |
| 15 | It 's simply placed between the mattress and the baby 's upper body and normal , low and high temperatures are shown in different colours . |
| 16 | Elsewhere in the sale four ‘ vortographs ’ — formal studies of fractured light produced by an assemblage of mirrors placed between the subject and the lens — by Alvin Langdon Coburn made £268,400 in total , nearly four times their estimate . |
| 17 | Her hands are clasped in the traditional manner , at centre chest with right hand over left , the index finger of the left hand placed between the index finger and thumb of the right , and clasping a bunch of small summer flowers . |
| 18 | In devising titles , avoid over-florid forms , however , as well as epigraphs ( i.e. quotations placed between the title and the main body of text ) , since these can make the essay appear to aspire to a grandeur or scale that it can not in the circumstances fulfil . |
| 19 | Placed between the lake and the sea , Mar Estang is perfect for water lovers . |
| 20 | A side hole for balloon pressure measurements was placed between the detection electrodes . |
| 21 | In some applications a gear is placed between the motor and load with the aim of adjusting the loading on the motor . |
| 22 | Many problems remain ; for example , it is not yet known how to compute a path that will avoid an obstacle placed between the arm and the end-point of movement . |
| 23 | Each one constitutes a separate ethnic unit , has a self-sufficient economy , a flag , a Supreme Soviet , a council of ministers and , most important , is placed between the area we call Russia and the world outside . |
| 24 | The initial pattern of four patches , symmetrically placed about the equator near 65°N , S ; 120°E , W , is seen in the present geomagnetic field and is stable on the historical timescale ; it has been proposed as a reflection of the underlying convective pattern . |
| 25 | Haussmann indicated that the West German economy was well placed for a continuation of these favourable trends and , more broadly , for the challenges presented by the political and economic transformation in East Germany and for completion of the EC internal market by the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | ‘ Back in August , we would have been satisfied with a place in the top six , well placed for a title challenge in the New Year at this stage . |
| 27 | Cyril Bleasdale , director of ScotRail , and other senior managers who will meet the minister are optimistic that the figures will boost their case as well placed for a move to the private sector . |
| 28 | It is inconceivable that we could advise our clients in the manner in which Council has advised this institute , A ‘ brown-field ’ site out of London , in say Leeds or Sheffield or York , could attract development grants , rates deferrals and provide jobs and would be better placed for the majority of the membership . |
| 29 | Perfectly placed for the man from the city whose idea of a good time was to get a Roe or a Red in his telescopic sights and blast it with a soft-nosed slug . |
| 30 | But New Zealand farmers could not be better placed for the day when ( if ) other rich countries lower barriers to food imports and abolish farm subsidies . |